DECnet/E and DECnet-Plus

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sat Jan 24 19:38:57 2004

>Makes sense.... even though a switch is really just a bank of bridges, for decnet you're better off with a hub. Though I haven't run into localtalk issues to date with using switches.

I've run DECnet through switches without any difficulty, just not this switch. It was handling the Ethertalk-to-Localtalk converter just fine, then slowly got more erratic. Same with LAT. It about drove me crazy trying to figure out what was going wrong.

                Zane

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